Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (L.A.FANS), Restricted Neighborhood Observations Data, 2000-2001 (ICPSR 37272)

Version Date: Apr 8, 2019

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Principal Investigator(s):
Anne R. Pebley, University of California, Los Angeles; Narayan Sastry, University of Michigan

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR37272.v1

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Summary

This study is a restricted data file of data from the L.A.FANS Neighborhood Observation Study, an in-person observational by trained L.A.FANS interviewers of the census blocks on which L.A.FANS respondents lived during L.A.FANS Wave 1. Interviewers were trained to walk each block face and record social and physical observations on precoded check sheets. Each block face was observed by several different interviewers working independently at different times of the day and week. These data are designed to be used with L.A.FANS Wave-1 survey interview data restricted versions 2.5 or 3 to provide data on the census block and census tract in which individual respondents lived.

Users who apply for these restricted data must also be approved for using restricted version 2.5 or 3. Please note that L.A. FANS restricted data may only be accessed within the ICPSR Virtual Data Enclave (VDE) and must be merged with the L.A. FANS public data prior to beginning any analysis.

The study is described in detail in the L.A.FANS Neighborhood Observations Codebook.

Further information is available in:

Jones, M., Pebley, A. R., and Sastry, N. (2011). Eyes on the block: Measuring urban physical disorder through in-person observation. Social Science Research, 40(2), 523-537.

Citation

Pebley, Anne R., and Sastry, Narayan. Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (L.A.FANS), Restricted Neighborhood Observations Data, 2000-2001. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-04-08. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR37272.v1

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Funding

United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01 HD35944, R01 HD049865), United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute on Aging (R01 AG022005), National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (R01 ES13907), National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, United States. Health Resources and Services Administration, United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Los Angeles County (Calif.), Russell Sage Foundation

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

Census block

Restrictions

This data collection may not be used for any purpose other than statistical reporting and analysis. Use of these data to learn the identity of any person or establishment is prohibited. To protect respondent privacy, this data collection is restricted from general dissemination. To obtain this file, researchers must agree to the terms and conditions of a Restricted Data Use Agreement in accordance with existing ICPSR servicing policies.

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

2000 -- 2001

Date of Collection

2000 -- 2001

Data Collection Notes

  1. L.A.FANS Neighborhood Observations Questionnaires are available to read or download in the L.A.FANS Neighborhood Observations Codebook.
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Sample

L.A.FANS is based on a stratified random sample of 65 neighborhoods (census tracts) in Los Angeles County, California. Poor neighborhoods/tracts were oversampled. Within each tract, census blocks were sampled with probability proportional to population size. Households were selected for interview in Wave 1 from among the addresses within sampled census blocks.

Time Method

Longitudinal

Universe

Households in Los Angeles County

Unit(s) of Observation

Geographic Unit

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

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Original Release Date

2019-04-08

Version History

2019-04-08 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

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Notes

  • The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.

  • One or more files in this data collection have special restrictions. Restricted data files are not available for direct download from the website; click on the Restricted Data button to learn more.